User talk:Bnardone

User:Ben Nardone::My Talk::Internship::G1G1::Software::Peru::Nigeria

Welcome!

If you don't yet know me or Pathfinder, see here.

I'm looking to meet people involved in the project, whether within the OLPC team or other stakeholders. Say hello below wherever it makes sense to. Ideas & pointers engouraged.

Ongoing Dialogue

• There are so many prongs of interest, so I'm going to split out discussion of them to sub-pages here now.
• I'm inclined to keep as much of my discourse to do with OLPC here rather than via email so that others can hopefully add to it,,
• ,,but please do feel encouraged to email bnardone@pathfind.org or call me anytime at c617-429-8699.
• Please do call me if it is at all time sensitive. I won't be able to check in on this wiki as often as I'd like. At this point, OLPC represents mostly my overtime/volunteer/side project at Pathfinder, though that might change at some point.

OLPC Intership at Pathfinder

• Summer 2007 internship has been filled by Chris Maire (User:PIOLPCIntern-1-Talk-Blog-WikiContribs- Marching)
• There may be one or more fall internships available. Do you know someone who might be good for this? Please send this to them, or them to me. (more)>>

Volunteers?

Maybe. Contact me. Volunteer-at-home might be possible. There's some regulation or legal deal that means I can't bring in people to work at the office unless they're getting school credit (or paid, which isn't gonna happen at least in the very short term though it might at some point not too far from now).

People

OLPC People:

I met SJ briefly at a round table last week, but haven't yet met others from OLPC. I'd love to hear from anyone. Drop me a note here to say hello.

NGO People:

• say hello here:)

Other People:

• say hello here:)

OLPC, Pathfinder. Pathfinder, OLPC

I'm hoping that this is the beginning of a very significant relationship. I'm starting to try to get people at Pathfinder interested in working with, for and through OLPC.

I'm very open to help and suggestions from OLPC on that front.

We might formalize in sort of a working agreement or something at some point, but at this point, I'm mostly focused on how to best introduce the OLPC project to Pathfinders (and on getting the internship off the ground). I've gotten several key players here introduced to the project and interested in some of the things that might be achieved. I'd like to flesh out possibilities with some at OLPC and then,,

• Might someone at OLPC be willing and able to come to Pathfinder (Watertown, MA) to do an introductory meeting with a small group of Pathfinders?
• a brown bag sort of presentation on the project for the office at large?

• Thoughts? Ideas? >>

This is a great idea. Let's figure out what kind of work we could do together, and then we can look into such a meeting - perhaps both of the sorts of meetings you mention. Sj talk 10:05, 21 May 2007 (EDT)

Countries

Nigeria

• I've emailed Mike Egboh, our Nigeria Chief of Party (country office head) ...more>>
• I've also started talking to our COMPASS project ...more>>

Peru

• I've talked with Milka Dinev, ...more>>

OLPC Developers

General

I want to hear from you. I'd like to make contact with those who are working in the OLPC environment. I'm surveying our staff to collect info about the various games that we use to teach people. I'm hoping we'll be able to create games and other software for the XO, starting with in internship this summer, but I'd also like to cultivate contacts with others who are developing for the XO.

Game Jam?

I'm wondering if there's something that might even be pulled together in time for the upcoming Game Jam. Talk to me if you have thoughts.

I'm going to try to stop by for at least one day. When would be best?

If my staff RH games survey yields fruit in time, I'll try to get that out there in hopes that it inspires someone. I'm toying with the idea of offering some sort of prize for 'best incorporation of some theme or message that i supply from the survey.' How do you think would go over? I'd be kicking in out of my own pocket (I don't have any company or grant money to spend on this yet), so I can't really seed with too much, but I'll mention it as a possibility.

• Thoughts? Ideas?>>

Archives

• misc

Notes from me:

• I'm only moderately familiar with using MediaWiki. Please forgive any of my misses vis-a-vis things like page naming conventions etc.
• I'm wondering if I should create a role account for Pathfinder for these pages instead of these personal talk pages.